General Zod

What sort of ammo ? We have rubber slugs, we have solid slugs, we have buck shot, we have tracer, we have armour piercing. I don't think we need more.

And yet I see plenty of videos where a freshie gets a geared player in a stun lock and walks away with his gear, because the geared guy didn't even had a chance to spray and pray from the hip which is what you would do. Not to mention that punching things like helmets and body armour should cause health damage to the person punching and not the person being punched. How many times do you think you could punch someone with full strength in the kevlar before breaking bones in your hand ? And that's even if the pain after first two would let you punch at all.

I think punches need a massive nerf in general, it is absolutely ridiculous that while I wear a helmet that can stop a 7.62 round I still need to worry about newbies knocking me out with bare hand in a matter of seconds. And that especially goes for Assault helmet with the visor attached because with other helmets you still have a lot of face exposed so you can still get hit in a jaw. But with helmets with full head coverage such as assault and motorcycle head strikes you have next to zero effect. Same goes for body punches with plate carrier and press vest. And yes that will make newbies life harder against the infect, which is an additional benefit. You would not run around punching violence crazed infected during apocalypse.

Bodies and zeds despawn rather quickly when there is no one around, and if there is someone around do you really want to stick around and waste time hiding bodies ? Given the size it should take 3 times more than a crate takes to bury. Also shovel either takes one of the main weapon slots, or enormous 16 slots in a backpack with 6 kg weight. Sounds like a lot of effort while still leaving a trail of moved ground which will be easy to see for anyone who follows you.

That's a bit disappointing, but what I'm going to do from now on is carry a bit of cooked human fat on my character at all time. Should someone kill me it shall be my vengeance from a grave.

Ok so I got punched to death by two freshies who said they were friendly before I got syptoms, unfortunately for them I had three portions of human fat in my backpack and before I died I heard their stomach rumble. Suck on that bitches. I managed to give it another go and started to laugh randomly. Is the info I fund on google correct and kuru itself isn't fatal ?

Yesterday I went on a high pop official server and decided to see what kuru does to the character since I've never had it before. I ate 6 human steaks, 5 cooked and 1 raw (left my victims back pack full of cooked human fat lying in the nearby house for unsuspecting hungry survivor). I had charcoal tablets to help with food poisoning but as of now no new corona virus appeared. I didn't stay on the server for long, but is there a incubation period for kuru or am I missing something ?

Apart from chicken there are no birds to hunt so don't see much use for birdshot. The two types of slug are clearly for PvP since you're talking about armour penetration. And the fact that we have so many rifles is exactly why we don't need anymore weapons for PvP.

Daily reminder that this is not a first person shooter and more pvp items are not what this game needs.

I don't see why should be getting a wipe with a small update like this.

Absolutely not on the tan colour for the helmet, not unless we get spray paint back. Last thing I need is for my head to glow in all the greenery when I wear the tacticool helmet, if anything I want a camo plate carrier. Tucking in shirts is pointless aesthetic and there are better things the 9 member strong dev team can spend their time on.

Barrels and crates are 45 days, buried crates or bags are two weeks. Traps are a week.

That server is literally never empty, even at 4 am local time there are few people loitering, but it might have been low pop until after work time.

I once left a AK 74 with some mags on a deer stand at around 5 AM and it was still there when I came back from work some 12 hours later.

I know what his point is. He gets disconnected from a server and he doesn't want to wait in the queue to get back in. He wants a priority re connection. He also doesn't want to change server because he will have to run back to were he left his character. My counter argument is that the slot he freed up when losing connection allows someone else who also either left their character on this server to resume playing in the same spot they logged off in or to play with his group without splitting. I don't lose my connection to servers on daily basis and I don't always play on the same server so it might as well be his internet connection not just the servers.

So you don't want your character moved, but all the people you say should join a different server should be fine with that ? Do you really lose your connection that often ? We could make the disconnect condition more lenient so that your connection has a chance to stabilise before you are kicked out. But I don't agree with, "I got disconnected and I want back in so everybody else has to either wait longer or join a different server and spawn on the coast which is exactly what I don't want to do myself".

You won't spend more time in the queue than it will take you to meet up and then run to where you were heading. And that's disregarding the possibility of individual members of the team dying when separated. If you're playing solo you shouldn't have a problem to joining the next almost full server instead of insisting on re joining the one you lost the connection to. And if you do then so will the people who either have a base or friends on that server and you shouldn't be given preferential queue time.

I play with friends, as do plenty of other people, so while lone players won't mind location change in case of people who play together it means that if I spawn in balota, one of my mates spawns in elektro and another in svetlo we will simply go play something else, no one is going to waste time it'll take to run that distance with current limited stamina, waste energy and wear out shoes to meet every time we want to play only to have to enact lord of the rings to walk back to our base up north.

The 366 servers are NL ones and they are absolutely garbage, I'm in UK so not far, on 250mb/s cable connection and I can't play on them either.

That's fair, but if I log out far up north say on my way to tisy I'm not changing server to end up back in balota. We could make the location change like the one with dynamic contaminated zones where it only moves you few hundred metres.

That would be a great idea if it wasn't for the 75 seconds timer and you ending back on the coast. We should be allowed one server change without location change in 24 hours to make this work. Yes, you can, not necessarily with all rifles, depending on the length of the gun and your arm but you definitely could do that with M4. Hold with with your right tightly pressed into your shoulder while opening the door with your left.

It's happening on PCs with SSD as well.

Bases are already so easy to raid I'm amazed people bother making them. I don't think we need more powerful explosives when it takes so few grenades to blow a wall up.

I'm not saying DayZ isn't fun to play. But someone here posted a graph that showed that this game has as of now maybe a 1000 players more than it did during alpha days and that means a lot of people left and never came back. I paid 19.99 for it, and I sure got my money worth. I'm not sure if I felt the same way if I bought it for the full amount it's sold for now.

Food and water are processed long after you finish eating / drinking, so I don't think stopping right on time when pill wears off prevents you from getting sick, and if it does. Is it really that hard to let go of one button as the icon disappears ?